Here’s a detailed breakdown of the percentage of individuals answering each of the three questions correctly from the different news audiences:
The New Yorker/Atlantic: 71 percent (correctly identified Democrats as the majority in the House), 71 percent (correctly identified Condeleeza Rice), 59 percent (correctly identified Gordon Brown)
NPR: 73 percent, 72 percent, 57percent
Hannity & Colmes: 84 percent, 73 percent, 49 percent
Rush Limbaugh: 83 percent, 71 percent, 41 percent
Colbert Report: 73 percent, 65 percent, 49 percent
Daily Show: 65 percent, 48 percent, 36 percent
NewsHour: 66 percent, 52 percent, 47 percent
O’Reilly Factor: 70 percent, 60 percent, 41 percent
C-SPAN: 63 percent, 59 percent, 35 percent
Letterman/Leno: 51 percent, 42 percent, 31 percent
CNN: 59 percent, 48 percent, 29 percent
National Enquirer: 44 percent, 32 percent, 22 percent
I would have given credit for "who cares?".
I got all three (actually, I admit, I only said “Brown” before looking at the question. Gun to my head, I’m sure I’d have added “Gordon”). I must be a genius.
Eh, Gordon is increasingly irrelevant anyway.
I mean before looking at the answer.
Lettermen isn’t known for having a very bright audience.
It's not just what you know. It's what you do with it. Color me unimpressed.
Something tells me the Free Republic audience would have trounced all of these.
Isn’t this stuff people should know just from paying minimal attention to what’s going on in their country and the world?
FR would be 100/99/85 minimum.
The Constituency of the Democratic Party on the other almost all knew that Pouilly-Fuisse should be served with brie, St. Emilion with pate and iced Stoli with caviar.
Why should Americans know who the prime minister of England is? Has Brown done anything that would even be vaguely interesting to people on this side of the Atlantic?
I remembered Gordo because of his decision to kiss up to
Islamists by proclaiming that terrorism would no longer be mentioned.